Acting credits
261
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Shiro Sano
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.4
Moderate attention
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Movies: 174Series: 88Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 73139
IMDb ID: nm0762965
Known for: Acting
Born: March 4, 1955
Age: 71
Place of birth: Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1985 - 2026
Years active: 42
Average TMDB rating: 6.9
Wikidata: Q3959632
Also known as
佐野 史郎 • Shirou Sano • Shiroh Sano • 사노 시로 • Shirô Sano • Shirō Sano
Other jobs
Director (2)Creator (1)
Biography
Shirō Sano (born March 4, 1955, in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor and director. After working with several theater companies, he had his first starring film role in To Sleep so as to Dream (1986) and gained wider recognition through the television drama Zutto Anata ga Suki datta (1992). His film credits include Violent Cop (1989), Godzilla 2000 (1999), Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). He made his directorial debut with Karaoke in 1999.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Shiro Sano.
Living Corpse
as (voice)
2026 Movie
Ice Blood
2026 Movie
The Flying Tackle: A Great Whirlwind
as Daizo Sawada
2025 Movie
Two Seasons, Two Strangers
as Uonuma
2025 Movie
Good News
as Sugimoto
2025 Movie
AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
2025 Movie
Silence of the Sea
as Cabinet Minister Kirigaya
2024 Movie
Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker
as Jung Hak-sun
2024 Movie
Happyend
as Principal Nagai
2024 Movie
Brush of the God
2024 Movie
Shimane Multiverse Den
2024 Movie
Dear Kaita Ablaze
as Satoshi
2023 Movie
Oshorin
2023 Movie
Between the White Key and the Black Key
as Takumi
2023 Movie
疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2023 Movie
暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
2022 Movie
Intimate Stranger
2022 Movie
"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
2022 Movie
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
as Kazuo Kudo
2021 Movie
Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
as Nobuo Asanuma
2021 Movie
Godzilla's Leading Ladies
as Himself
2020 Movie
Nezura 1964
as Azuma
2020 Movie
Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano
as Mitsunori Yagawa
2020 Movie
Fukushima 50
as Prime Minister
2020 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Shiro Sano.
S&X
as Norio Toyohara • 7 eps
2026 Series
Ultraman Teo
as Takayuki Tsukahara • 2 eps
2026 Series
Is It Too Late for Sushi?
as Tateishi Funao • 10 eps
2026 Series
The Ghost Writer's Wife
as Eto Yasumune • 125 eps
2025 Series
Dr. Ashura
as Katsuji Fudo • 11 eps
2025 Series
The Killer Inside
as Masato Shirabishi • 9 eps
2022 Series
The Journalist
as Hisashi Nakagawa • 6 eps
2022 Series
How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!
as Takeshi Mizuguchi • 10 eps
2021 Series
So Close! Detective Oshii 2
as Enoshita Chikara • 8 eps
2021 Series
Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira
16 eps
2021 Series
Onibi Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
1 eps
2020 Series
Jubaku Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
1 eps
2020 Series
24 JAPAN
as Genji Onitsuka • 24 eps
2020 Series
Cursed in Love
as Sōjurō Takatsuki • 8 eps
2020 Series
Secret of 10
as Yutaka Naganuma • 10 eps
2020 Series
Top League
6 eps
2019 Series
So Close! Detective Oshii
as Chikara Enoshita • 4 eps
2019 Series
Tokyo 23-ku Onna
as Hyuga • 1 eps
2019 Series
Harassment Game
as Mizutani Itsuro • 9 eps
2018 Series
The Habitation
as Seiji Terauchi • 8 eps
2018 Series
The Confidence Man JP
as Tsutomu Tawaraya • 1 eps
2018 Series
SICK'S Jo no Shou
as Yuichi Oshima • 15 eps
2018 Series
Spring Has Come
as Shuji Kishikawa • 5 eps
2018 Series
Segodon
as Ii Naosuke • 8 eps
2018 Series